VM_365 Day 100. Building up the Roman Kitchen pots

Refitting rims and vessel sections
Refitting rims and vessel sections

For our 100th day of the VM_365 project we have another image from the Roman Kitchen pots from Broadstairs.

From the sorting and refitting of the mass of pottery from the Kitchen dump, some very distinctive vessels began to emerge and although every sherd was present, some vessels were represented by enough pieces to make a substantial reconstruction.

In the image today the full circuit of the rim of a very large vessel has been assembled. In the tray to the right, the sherds from another nearly complete mixing bowl were gathered together, ready to be re-fitted.

With substantial elements reconstructible, the vessels could be identified very precisely…

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